Comment 115 for bug 67188

I'm not sure my problem is strictly related to this bug report, but I am also getting this same error when I try to select a US Macbook layout for my keyboard layout.

I just upgraded to Fedora 10 on my Macbook from Fedora 9. Previously, I never had to select a non-generic keyboard model or non-standard layout. Everything (mostly) worked out of the box, so I never paid much attention to it.

Well, once I upgraded, a bunch of things stopped working (including the arrow keys and higher fn+ keys such as delete and home/end, etc.) so I started trying to find some combination of settings that would fix the problem.

I finally discovered that: a) Setting "USA Macintosh" at the login screen, AND b) Setting keyboard model to "MacBook/MacBook Pro" in System->Preferences->Hardware->Keyboard->Layouts, AND c) Setting my "selected layouts" default to "USA Macintosh" would actually fix the layout. HOWEVER, I always get the following error on logging in:

Error activating XKB configuration.
It can happen under various circumstances:
- a bug in libxklavier library
- a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
- X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation

X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
10503000

If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd

[alex@Porthos ~]$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "base", "evdev", "us", "", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "base", "evdev", "us", "mac", ""
[alex@Porthos ~]$
[alex@Porthos ~]$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
 layouts = [us mac]
 model = macbook78
 options = [grp grp:shift_caps_toggle]
[alex@Porthos ~]$

I'm still poking around at this, so I might end up working around this better with some other combination of settings. However, that dialog suggests a bug which should probably be addressed. :-P

Thanks for your time.
--Alex